Both liberals and conservatives are trashing this anti-ACA court ruling

The ruling is "pretty bananas." No Images? Click here         Even Obamacare Haters Think Friday’s Court Ruling Is Terrible​ Friday’s court ruling against the Affordable Care Act is so bonkers that even the law’s staunchest and most strident critics are trashing it. Judge Reed O’Connor, from the federal district court in Fort Worth, Texas, held that the 2010 health care law is unconstitutional. Not much is going to change right away, as the state attorneys general defending the law have promised to appeal the decision to the Circuit Court of Appeals and, if need be, to the U.S. Supreme Court after that. Full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment, is a goal most conservatives have long sought. And yet since O’Connor issued his decision, prominent conservatives have been speaking out against it. Case Western Law Professor Jonathan Adler, an architect of the most recent lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act, said the ruling is “pretty bananas.” George Mason’s Ilya Somin, an outspoken and influential supporter of a previous legal challenge, says the linchpin of O’Connor’s thinking is “badly wrong.” Philip Klein, executive editor of the Washington Examiner and author of a book called Overcoming Obamacare, wrote that the decision “an assault on the rule of law.” READ MORE     WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) made a surprise announcement Monday that he will not be seeking re-election in 2020. Alexander, 78, was first elected to the Senate in 2002. He currently chairs the powerful Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and is a close ally of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). READ MORE A bill to combat the appallingly high rates of missing and murdered Native women has stalled in the House, despite sailing through the Senate, because a single Republican congressman is mysteriously holding it up. READ MORE The federal government may be partially shut down later this week if President Donald Trump doesn’t get the $5 billion he’s demanding from Congress for a wall along the southern U.S. border that he claimed Mexico would pay for. READ MORE    .     ICYMI In the U.S., black women face higher rates of domestic violence that do women of nearly all other races. In Dallas, Delashon Jefferson became one of those tragic statistics.    The Voting Rights Act was one of the most powerful pieces of legislation in U.S. history. A new podcast from HuffPost explains why and how it’s under attack.   The day before former Trump aide Michael Flynn is set to be sentenced for lying about his communications with Russian officials, a court unsealed a grand jury indictment alleging his former business partner worked as an agent of Turkey.    . Want more?  Trump Defender Alan Dershowitz Argues That Lying To The FBI Isn’t A Crime Gov. Andrew Cuomo Calls For Legalization Of Recreational Marijuana In New York Indeed Quits Advertising On Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Show     HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Oath Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More. How will Trump’s administration impact you? Sign up for our email and find out. Did a friend send you this? Subscribe here. Like what you see? Share it. Want more? Here are two other newsletters you'll love: The Morning Email and Must Reads. ©2018 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from HuffPost Feedback | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe    . - - Preferences  |  Unsubscribe